Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne

Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (14 January 1845-3 June 1927) was Viceroy and Governor-General of British India from 10 December 1888 to 11 October 1894 (succeeding the Earl of Dufferin and preceding the Earl of Elgin), Governor-General of Canada from 23 October 1883 to 11 June 1888 (succeeding the Marquess of Lorne and preceding the Lord Stanley of Preston), and Foreign Secretary from 12 November 1900 to 4 December 1905 (succeeding Lord Salisbury and preceding Edward Grey. He was a member of the Conservative Party.

Biography
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice was born in London, England in 1845, and he was educated at Eton and Oxford. He was at first a Liberal Party member, and held a number of posts under William Gladstone, including being Governor-General of Canada from 1883 to 1888. He split with the Liberals over Irish home rule, and was governor-general of India from 1888 to 1894. He served in Lord Salisbury's Conservative Party cabinet as Secretary for War from 1895 to 1900, and as Foreign Secretary from 1900 to 1905, during which time he negotiated the 1902 alliance with Japan and the 1904 "Entente Cordiale" with France. From 1906 to 1915, he led the Conservative opposition in the House of Lords, but served in H.H. Asquith's coalition in 1915-16. In November 1917, he published a famous letter advocating a negotiated peace with Germany in the Daily Telegraph. He died in Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland in 1927.